Rock And Pop

There is no irony in the title of Eddie Vedder’s first full-fledged solo album: these are indeed songs performed on a ukulele, an instrument uncommon but not unknown to rockers. He has nothing more in mind on Ukulele Songs than singing, whether it’s with duet partners Glen Hansard and Cat Power or just on his own, tossing out love songs, something he generally has avoided with Pearl Jam.

Singer/songwriter Kathleen Edwards has different kinds of traveling in mind on her album Voyageur. There is the geographic kind, of course, but also the journey through the seasons of nature, and, especially, the trip a love affair represents from its beginning to end.

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Don’t miss out on the opportunity to get your hands on this classic album on vinyl!This is a limited re-press of an album that is currently listed on Discogs for £300 [You’re ‘avin’ a laugh, right?!]The debut album from The Eels, feat. Novocaine For The Soul, Susan’s House, Guest List and many more wonderful and essential tunes for lost and yearning souls.

’End Times’ is American rock band Eels eighth studio album since forming in 1996 with debut ’Beautiful Freak’. Lead singer Mark Oliver Everett, better known as ’E’, produced the album, recording primarily on a 4-track recorder. Contemporary cartoonist Adrian Tomine lent his hand to the albums art work for the cover. The band added first single ’Little Bird’ on their YouTube and MySpace pages for fans and was voted in AOL’s top 25 songs of 2009.

WONDERFUL, GLORIOUS is rich in highly creative, unprecedented songs. "I don’t know what to compare a lot of these songs to," Everett says. "They’re their own thing, you know? We were all really excited with what we were making." EELS’ tenth album is brimming with life and the tribulations that make it worthwhile -- the trials of a man fighting for his life, his sanity, and the search for meaning.

’Klamath’ is Mark Eitzel’s first proper solo album of new original material sine 2001. Eitzel producing with Franz Nicolay from the Hold Steady and Marc Capelle from American Music Club and Dave Douglas (who drums with Kelley Stoltz) questing on the album.

Welsh psych-pop band El Goodo return with their long, long awaited third album By Order Of The Moose, on Cian Ciaran’s (Super Furry Animals) Strangetown Records. Recorded over the course of 8 years in an old derelict cinema in their home village of Resolven, the album is a continuation of where the band left off in 2009 with their previous effort Coyote. Wielding the wide open spaces of spaghetti westerns with the close melodic harmonies of girl groups and the good humour of Nuggets inspired garage rock’n’roll, El Goodo takes you on a trip through their fascination with 60s music.

EL VY is the collaboration between Matt Berninger, vocalist and lyricist of The National, and Brent Knopf, the Portland musician and producer best known for his work in Menomena and his more recent band, Ramona Falls.

Their debut album, Return To The Moon, is a project Berninger and Knopf have been thinking about for years. Their friendship spans nearly a decade, starting back when The National and Menomena played small half-empty clubs along America’s west coast. Feeling an immediate musical kinship, the pair kept in touch, Brent sending Matt occasional rough sketches of music and Matt responding with ideas and lyrics. Finally, in the winter and spring of 2014-115, they got together to make an album.

Return to the Moon sounds exactly like you’d hope a collaboration between these artists would: Berninger’s darkly funny, lyrical storytelling and his immediately identifiable sense of melody offset by Knopf’s playful, architectural arrangements and inventive production.